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C3 AIThe Agentic Operating System for Enterprise AI
vs
CrewAIThe Enterprise Agent Build & Runtime for the work your business runs on
Comparison · AI Agents · weekly run Nov 3

C3 AI vs CrewAI

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

CrewAI is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 17.5 versus 0.9 for C3 AI.

Choose C3 AI if…

  • You need SOC 1 or SOC 2 or SOC 3 or FedRAMP or FedRAMP Moderate or FISMA or FIPS 140-2 or ITAR or HIPAA or PCI DSS Level 1 or DoD IL5 or DoD IL6 coverage
  • You prefer a larger, established vendor (1,001–5,000 employees)
  • Enterprise-scale AI solutions

Choose CrewAI if…

  • You want the brand AI engines rank higher (17.5 vs 0.9)
  • You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
  • You need SOC 2 Type II coverage
  • Fastest path to a working multi-agent demo

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric C3 AI CrewAI
Visibility score0.9%17.5%
Change vs last weekNewNew
Rank in AI Agents#59#7
Share of voice0.5%4.9%
Mentions this run330
Positive in AI answers—43%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

0%25%50%75%100%Nov 3C3 AI 1%

C3 AI 0pp · CrewAI 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

CrewAI leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT
0.9%
15%
AI Mode
0.9%
27.6%
Perplexity
0.9%
10%
C3 AICrewAI

Head to head in AI answers

0 engine answers name both brands

0C3 AI ranked higher
0CrewAI ranked higher

Features, pricing & fit

DimensionC3 AICrewAI
Pricing model—Flat tiers
Entry price—Contact sales
Free plan—Yes
DeploymentThe company says its platform runs across any infrastructure.CrewAI cloud, customer VPC on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, or fully on-premises (AMP Factory).
Integrations—1000+
ComplianceSOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, FedRAMP, FedRAMP Moderate, FISMA, FIPS 140-2, ITAR, HIPAA, PCI DSS Level 1, DoD IL5, DoD IL6SOC 2 Type II
SupportCustomer Support Portal, 24/7 support line in customer contract, Email support@c3.aiCommunity forum, Dedicated support with Slack/Teams channel, Support contact, On-site support
Founded2009—
HeadquartersRedwood City, CaliforniaSan Francisco, CA
Employees1,001–5,00011–50
FundingIPOSeries B
Best forLarge operators in defense and intelligence, maritime, manufacturing, federal government, oil and gas, utilities and healthcare.Enabling business and technical teams to build agents while giving platform teams the control to govern them.

Plans side by side

C3 AI

Pricing not available.

CrewAI

Basic$0
EnterpriseCustom
CrewAI pricing

Pros and cons

Themes from the AI answers that mention each brand

C3 AI

  • Enterprise-scale AI solutions
  • Placed in ISG's Merit tier rather than top tiers

CrewAI

  • Fastest path to a working multi-agent demo
  • Strong for complex multi-agent and role-based workflows
  • Free open-source Python framework
  • Good for quickly prototyping multi-agent systems
  • Industry standard for pro-code multi-agent orchestration
  • Better suited to developers than nontechnical users

Data collected ·ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode·coverage 100%·next run

Cite as: SlateIndex, “C3 AI vs CrewAI”, https://slateindex.ai/compare/c3-ai-vs-crewai, data of Nov 3, 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.